The microtoponyms and the languange study of Çay town, Afyonkarahisar province

Microtoponym which is a sub-branch of toponymic, investigates origin of the geographical structures such as stream, springs, rocks, caves etc. that are known by only the inhabitants of a residential area. This study is a toponym study which the microtoponyms of Çay town were examined. The aim is to bring out the culture of naming locations and also to record the locations? names that getting forgotten. This study which has five parts is constituted by using the materials compiled from the area. Totally, a thousand third hundred and fifteen location names were compiled. After assessing these location names from the point of version and lexicosemantic, it is focused on the linguistic study of the location names. It also provides information on topics such as the culture of local people, their superstitious beliefs and the social life by basing on the location names.